| 1. | It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet thoughtfully. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | After all it was a ruse of the Thenardiers to obtain money. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and terrible team. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Among these men, to beat means to feign one beats a malady ruse is their strength. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | This posing at the piano and over the album was only a little ruse adopted by way of precaution. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | The ruse succeeded, for the avaricious shepherd, unable to resist the tempting bait, gave the desired information, upon which Hermes, exerting his divine power, changed him into a lump of touchstone, as. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 8. | His having moved his troops there is only a ruse he will probably pass round to the right of the Moskva. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | That I spake of sacrifices and honey-sacrifices, it was merely a ruse in talking and verily, a useful folly Here aloft can I now speak freer than in front of mountain-caves and anchorites' domestic animals. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |